Posts tagged Tysons
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Transforming Tysons with four unique districts
Last week, the Tysons Land Use Task Force released the most detailed vision report thus far. It divides Tysons into eight districts, four denser clusters (like villages) centered around each of the planned Metro stations, and four along the edges which will transition between the central density and the suburban surrounding neighborhoods. Keep reading…
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Support a sustainable Tysons
Later this month, residents, businesses, and planners around Tysons Corner will release their plan to convert America’s archetypal edge city into a walkable, mixed-use, transit-oriented community. The Coalition for Smarter Growth wants to make sure Fairfax’s supervisors know that citizens will support a plan to create sustainability and reduce auto dependence… Keep reading…
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Yesterday’s suburbia tomorrow
Freakonomics’ latest quorum discusses everyone’s favorite topic in the era of high gas prices: the future of suburbs. After the predictable quotes from Kunstler (“The suburbs have three destinies… as materials salvage, as slums, and as ruins”) comes Freehold, NJ administrator Thomas Antus, who thinks development will make taxes spiral out… Keep reading…
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The parking front of the commuter “war”
Ryan Avent points out that on the same weekend the Post ran the awful Weiss article calling DC’s pro-pedestrian policies a “war on commuters,” the Post also reported that Tysons planners and developers plan less parking. Funny, I wonder why Weiss didn’t write about Fairfax’s “war on commuters.”… Keep reading…
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VA-11 candidates on traffic, transit, and density
Tomorrow, Democrats in most of Fairfax and northern Prince William County will vote for a nominee to run for the Congressional seat in Virgina’s 11th district, currently held by Tom Davis. Since Northern Virginia has been trending Democratic and the Republicans lack a top-tier candidate, there’s a good chance the Democratic nominee will win in the general. Keep reading…
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Two sets of obstacles for Tysons
The Washington Post has an overview of Tysons redevelopment plans and the controversies that are coming. Critics from the urbanist side of things are concerned that keeping Routes 7 and 123 as wide highways instead of “urban boulevards” and running Metro aboveground will create barriers between sections and compromise the potential for an urban feel of the area. Anti-development… Keep reading…
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Tysons stepping away from the edge
Tysons Corner is the classic Edge City, and perhaps the original inspiration for the term. They’re the cities created entirely around the automobile, the mall, and the suburban office park style of architecture—what Christopher Leinberger calls the “Futurama vision” of the shiny new America that looked so exciting in the 1950s. Now that we’ve… Keep reading…